Barack Obama becomes the 44th US president after a national elections that featured several notable online threats. Picture taken from CNN.
Media buzz about frontrunners began the US Presidential elections. Then there were the nomination processes for the two primary parties, then the party conventions, the debates and campaigns, and then Barack Obama’s victory on the [...]
Newsweek is reporting that the computer systems of the campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain were compromised in a “sophisticated cyberattack” by an unknown “foreign entity.”
At Obama headquarters, what was originally believed to be a virus planted in a phishing attack turned out to something more ominous. After an investigation, the FBI and [...]
Seems like fake AV programs are still everywhere! Just a couple of weeks ago, Halloween costume searchers were targeted by these nasty programs through SEO poisoning. Now I’ve just encountered 2 scenarios resulting to rogue AV downloads, also done through hijacking of Google search results:
In the first scenario, queries for the string refa+zeitaufnahmebogen on the [...]
A remote buffer overflow vulnerability in the Linux Kernel could be exploited by attackers to execute code or cripple affected systems, according to a Gentoo bug report that just became public.
The flaw could allow malicious hackers to launch arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges. This could lead to complete system compromise or, in some cases [...]
According to TPM Muckraker and this press release, the Republican National Committee is lining up the computer forensics firm Forensicon to provide analysis on e-voting machines to form the basis of a legal attack against the validity of the 2008 presidential election.
Briefly, Forensicon’s press release says:
[it] was contacted last Thursday by a security firm [...]
